Currency-handling machine.



F. L. SATTLEY.

CURRENCY HANDLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 12. 1911.

Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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CURRENCY HANDLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 19- 1,156,101 Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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F. L. SATTLEY.

CURRENCY HANDLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIZ. 1911.

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CURRENCY HANDLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12. 1911.

Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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CURRENCY-HANDLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

Application filed May 12, 1911. Serial No. 626,831.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. SATTLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indian polis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Currency-Handling Machine,of which the following is a specification.

Currency, or paper money, of various denominations, is of substantially uniform size and thickness so that separation and counting of such money must be accomplished through the medium of human selective intelligence. So far as I am aware, no effort has heretofore been made to provide a machine to aid in the rapid separation and counting of currency and the object of my present invention is to produce a mechanism of such character that individual pieces of currency may be successively automatically withdrawn from a pile of miscellaneous denominations and presented to view for selection, mechanism readily controllable by the operator being providedfor thereafter depositing each piece in an appropriate receptacle and automatically counting, or valueindicating, the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a mechanism constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 a vertical section; Fig. 3 a horizontal axial section Fig. 4 a front elevation; Fig. 5 a fragmentary detail of one of the receiving drawers; Fig. 6 a front elevation, about fullsize, of the selecting key board; Fig. 7 a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 a fragmentary detail, about fullsize, of two of the selecting and counting mechanisms.

In the drawin s, 10 indicates a suitable casing within whichis rotatably mounted a hollow drum or separator 12 which may be rotated by any suitable means. In the present form I have shown the drum as provided with a smooth circumferential portion 13 adapted to be contacted by friction roll 14. Drum 12 is circumferentially grooved at 15 and leading through the wall of the drum at indicated at 17 and communicatin one or more points is a series of passages 16 which preferably extend through the portions of the drum between the grooves 15. In the present form, drum 12 is provided with two series of openings 16.

The trunnions of drum 12 are tubular as with these tubular trunnions are suction pipes 18 the present form, the exhauster 19 is indicated as a rotary structure driven by a pulley 21 carried by a shaft 22 which also carries a pulley 23 connected by a belt 24 with a pulley 25 on a shaft 26 which carries the friction wheel 14.

Leading'to thecircumference of drum 12 is a chute 31 in which the currency 33 may be stacked, the said currency being urged continuously toward the circumference of the drum by a suitable weight, or other means, 34 and the arrangement being such that the initial piece of currency of the stack is pressed lightly against the circumference of drum 12. It is desirable, however, that only a portion of the face of each piece of currency have a rubbing contact with the circumference of the drum and I therefore shield all but the advance edge of the our rency by means of a shield35 which forms a part of the casing 10.

Arranged immedlately above the advance edge of the stack of currency 33, is a suction pipe 36 which extends across the face of the drum and is provided with a plurality of small suction openings 37 which lead to a point immediately adjacent the circumference of the drum and the advance edges of the currency. The openings 37 are considerably smaller in area than the openings 16 and pipe 36 is connected to the pipes 18.

Arranged over the drum 12, in a position in advance of the chute 31, is a magnifying glass 38 and beyond the glass 38, beneath the drum 12, I arrange a multiplicity of receptacles 41 one for each denomination of currency. Ialso consider desirable an initial receptacle 42 to receive counterfeits and mutilated pieces. Each of the receptacles 41 may conveniently be a sliding drawerwhich, in the present form, is provided at its back end, in a plane substantially even with the open top of the drawer, with a tail plate 43' which is of a size suflicient to completely close. the lower end of the compartment 41' when the drawer 41 is projected from the compartment as indicated in Fig. 5. Each drawer 41 may conveniently be provided with a counter weight 44 which will tend to normally project the drawer from its compartment and, in order to hold the drawer within its compartment, I provide a latch plate 45 which is formed to cooperate with a counter disk 46. Disk 46 may be provided with a notch 47 through which the tongue 45' of the latch 45 may fingers 53 which are so formed as to be projectable into the grooves 15 of drum 12. Each rock shaft also carries an arm 54 having a tip 55 which, when the. stripper fingers are projected into grooves 15, will lie in the path of movement of one of the pins or rollers 56 carried by drum 12. Each rock shaft 52 also carries an arm 57 connected, by a link 58 and lever 59, with a selector key 61 which may be yieldingly held in either normal or depressed position by means of a light spring 62 taking into either one of a pair of notches 63 formed in the stem of the key. The several keys 61 are individualized by suitable characters to indicate different currency denominations. The compartment 42 is alsoequipped with a stripper mechanism like that just described, its rock shaft being connected to a key 61 which is suitably designated. In the drawings this compartment is shown as having an open vertical face guarded by one or more guard wires 64, accumulated bills being readily withdrawn by doubling and drawing out between the\wires.

The operation is as follows: The exhauster 19 will be operated so as to establish a sufficient vacuum within the drum 12 and pipes 36, there being a constant inrush of air through the openings 16 and 37 except'when the same are closed by a piece of currency. The drum 12 will then be rotated .at a desirable speed and will slide freely be.- neath the initial bill of the stack 33, the friction of this bill upon the guard 35 being greater than the friction of the advance edge of the bill upon the drum. When a set of openings 16 comes opposite the advance edge of the initial bill, however, the said advance edge will be drawn down against the drum by the air and the bill will thereupon proceed forwardly'with the drum. If by chance more than one bill should be stripped from the currency pile by this action of the drum 12, the advance edge of the outermost bill will be immediatelv caught by the suction through openings 37 and thus held while the initial bill is stripped from beneath it and carried forward with the drum. The bill thus stripped from the currency pile by drum 12 will be carried beneath the magnifying lens 38 so that the operator may carefully scrutinize it, determine its genuincness and denomination. The operator will thereupon press the corresponding designating key (3] or 61, whereupon the proper stripper fingers 53 will be thrown up into the grooves 15 of the drum and the bill will be carried bv the drum over these stripper fingers. When the bill has been carried well over the proper stripper fingers, one of the pins 54) will engage the associated arm 54 and thus positively drive the stripper fingers away from the drum so as to strip the bill from the drum and permit it to fall into the proper drawer 41 or receptable 42. This positive actuation of the arm 54 will cause its pawl 54 to operate upon the associated ratchet wheel 49 and thus cause the associated counter Wheel 46 to be advanced one step. When a sutticient advancement of the counter disk 46 has been accomplished, its

notch 47 will come opposite the tongue 45 of latch 45 of the associated drawer 41. whereupon the drawer will be projected, as indicated in Fig. 5, so that the determined number of selected bills may be removed, any oncoming bills of the same denomination being deposited upon the tail 43 so that. when the drawer is again pushed back into receiving position, the bills deposited upon the tail plate will be deposited in the drawer, the operator retracting latch plate 45 so that its tongue 45 may be carried beneath and behind the counter disk.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency, means for successivelv withdrawing the initial piece from such stack, selector mechanism for selectively re leasing the pieces from the withdrawing means, and a magnifying glass arranged between the Withdrawing means and the selector means over the path of travel of the withdrawn currency.

2. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency, means for successively Withdrawing the initial piece from such stack, and manually controlled selector mechanism for selectively releasing the pieces from the withdrawing means.

3. In a currency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack,.means for selectively causing the withdrawal of currency from the suction member, and a magnifying glass v arranged over the path of movement of the suction member between the,,cnrrency-stack support and the selective withdrawing means.

4. In a currency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack, and means .for selectively causing the withdrawal of currency from the suction member.

5. In a currency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arrangedto engage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said movable suction member, a plurality of receptacles one for each stri per finger, means by which said stripper ngers may be selectively brought into stripping position relative to the suction member, means controlled by the suction member for automatically withdrawing an actuated stripper finger from stripping position, means normally tending to withdraw each receptacle from receiving position, means for temporarily retaining each receptacle in receiving position, and means associated with each strip per finger for intermittently actuating the retaining means to perm-it automatic withdrawal of the associated receptacle from receiving position.

6. In a currencv handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said movable suction member,.a plurality of receptacles one for each strlpper finger, means by which said stripper fingers may be selec- "tively brought into stripping position relative to the suction member, means normally tend ng to withdraw each receptacle from receiving position, means for temporarily retaining each receptacle in receiving po- 1 sition, and means associated with each stripper finger for intermittently actuating the retaining means to permit automatic withdrawal of the associated receptacle from receiving position.

7. In acurrency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece ofcurrency and move transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said movable suction member, a plurality of receptacles one for each stripper finger, manually controlled means by which said stripper fingersmay be selectively brought into strlpping position relative to the suction member, and means controlled by the suction member for automatically withdrawing an actuated stripper finger from stripping position.

8. In acurrency handling machine, means for supporting astack of currency, a mov-. able suction member arranged to engage the initial .piece of currency andmove transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said mo vversely of the stack, manually controlled means for selectively causing the withdrawal of currency from the suction member, a magnifying glass arranged over the path of movement of the suction member between the currency-stack support and the selective withdrawing means, and a second suction member arranged adjacent the advance side I of the currency stack adjacent the first mentioned suction memberto act in opposition thereto,

10. In a currency handling machine, means for supporting astack of currency, a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack, manually controlled means for selectively causing the withdrawal of currency from the suction member, and a second suction member arranged adjacent the advance side of the currency stack adj acent the first mentioned suctiori member to act in opposition thereto.

11. In a currency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, -a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said movable suction member, aplurality of receptacles one fc-reach "stripper finger, means by which said stripper fingers may be selectively and a second suction member arranged ad jacent the advance side of the currency stack adjacent the first mentioned suction member to act in opposition thereto.

12. In a currency-handling machine,means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suctlon member arranged to engage the '1I'11t1al p1ece of currency and move transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said movable suctlon member, a plurality, of receptacles one for each stripper finger, means by 13. In a currency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arranged toengage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said movable suction Imember', a plurality of receptacles one for each stripper finger, manually controlled means by which said stripper fingers may be selectively brought into stripping position relative to the suction member, means controlled by the suction member for automatically withdrawing an actuated stripper finger from stripping position, and a second suction member arranged adjacent the advance side of the currency stack adjacent the first mentioned suction member-to act in opposition thereto.

14. In a currency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move transversely of the stack, a plurality of selective stripper fingers arranged adjacent said movable suction member, a plurality of receptacles one for each stripper finger, manually controlled means by which said stripper fingers may be selectively brought into stripping position relative to the suction memher, and a second suction'member arranged ad acent the advance side of the currency stack adjacent the first mentioned suction member to act in opposition thereto.

15; In a currency handling machine, means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable suction member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move the same from the stack, and suction means arranged in conjunction with said movable member for engaging'and holding back any second piece of currency withdrawn from the stack by the action of the movable member on the initial piece of currency of the stack.

16. In a currency handling machine,means for supporting a stack of currency, a movable member arranged to engage the initial piece of currency and move the same from the stack, and suction means arranged in conjunction with said movable member for engaging and holding back any second piece of currency withdrawn from the stack by the action of the movable member on the initial piece of currency of the stack.

17. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency, means for withdrawing the pieces of currency successively from the stack and passing them individually within the view of the operator, and manually controlled selector mechanism for stripping the pieces successively from the withdrawing means.

18. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency, a magnifying glass, means for withdrawing the pieces of currency successively from the stack and passing them beneath the magnifying glass within the view of the operator, and manually controlled selector mechanism for stripping the pieces consecutively from the withdrawing means.

19. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency, means for withdrawing the pieces of currency sucessively from the stack and passing them individually within the View of the operator, manually controlled selector mechanism for stripping the currency from the withdrawing means, a

receiver asociated with the selector mechanism, counting mechanism associated with the selector mechanism whereby each plece is counted after being stripped, and mechanism for removing the currency from the receiver when a predetermined number of pieces has been counted.

20. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack ofcurrency of different denominations, means for extracting the pieces of currency successively from the supporting means, a plurality of receivers, means for removing each piece of currency from the extracting means and depositing it in a receiver in the 'form of a stack each denomination separate in predetermined numbers,

and means for removing each stack from its receiver upon the delivery of the final piece of the predetermined number.

21. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency of different denominations, means for successively withdrawing the pieces of currency from the stack, mechanism for selectively releasing the pieces from the Withdrawing means each denomination to itself in predetermined numbers, a plurality of receivers each arranged to receive a denomination from the selector 'mechanism, and means for removing the accumulated pieces of each denomination predetermined number. 22. In a currency handling machine, the

upon the delivery of the last piece of its combination of means for supporting a stack of currency of diflerent denominations, means for successively withdrawing the pieces ofcurrency from the stack, mecha= nism for selectively releasing the pieces from the withdrawing means each denomination to itself in predetermined numbers, a plurality of receivers each arranged to receive a denomination frbm the selector mechanism, means for registering each piece delivered to its respective receiver, and means for removing the accumulated pieces of each denomination upon the delivery of the last piece of a predetermined number.

23. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting, a stack of curency of different denominations, means for successively withdrawing the pieces of curency from the stack, a plurality of receivers one for each denomination, a

separate receiver for undesirable pieces of all denominations, and a plurality of selector mechanisms for selectively releasing the successive pieces from the withdrawing means and depositing them in the corresponding receivers.

24. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency of different denominations, means for successively withdrawing the pieces of currency from the stack, a plurality of receivers one for each denomination, a separate receiver for undesirable pieces of all denominations, and a plurality of manually controlled selector mechanisms for selectively releasing the successive pieces from the withdrawing means," said selector mech anisms being characterized to indicate the respective denominations and the undesirable pieces of all denominations.

25. In a currency handling machine, the

' combination of'means for supporting our- ,rency in position to be separated and counted, means for successively removing the pieces of currency from the supporting means, a plurality of receivers associated with the removing means, and a plurality of manually controlled selector mechanisms for removing each piece from the removing means and delivering it'to its receiver.

26. Ina currency'handling machine, the combination of means for suporting currency in position, to beseparated and counted, means for successively removing the pieces of currency from the supporting means, a plurality of receivers associated with the removing means, a plurality of manually controlled selector mechanisms for removing each piece, from the removing means and delivering it to its receiver, and

means associated with the receivers for removing the accumulated pieces .after a predetermined number has been delivered to its receiver.

27. In a currency handling machine, the

diate said'supporting and receiving means for successively withdrawing single pieces of currency from said supportmg means and conveying the same to said receiving means,

and means for causing the withdrawal of the currency from-said member and its delivery to said receiving means.

29. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting ourrency, a plurality of means for receiving currency, a rotary suction member intermediate said supporting and receiving means for successively withdrawing single pieces of currency from said supporting means and conveying the same to said receiving means, means for causing the withdrawal of the currency from said member and its delivery to said receiving means, and means for preventing the withdrawal of more than a sin- 4 gle piece of currency by said suction member at a time.

30. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a mass of currency, cylindrical means for removing the pieces of currency successively from the supporting means, said cylindrical means being fluted or grooved circumferentially, means associated with the removing means for stripping the pieces of currency therefrom, said strippmg means having a plurality of members arranged to lie within the flutes or grooves when in stripping position and without the flutes or grooves when not in stripping position.

31. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supportinga mass of currency in position to be separated, a rotating cylinder having means for removing the pieces of ourrency successively from the supporting means, andmeans for separating the pieces ofcurrency-from the rotatingvcylinder, said separating means being adapted to be movedinto or out of the'path of the currency being conveyed by said -rotating cylinder.

32. In a currency combination of means for supporting a mass of currency, means for withdrawing the initial piece from the supporting .meansa plurality of receiversassociated with the withdrawing means, and a plurality of se-' handling machine, the

lector mechanisms for removing'the cur- 7 rency from the withdrawing means, each of with the selector mechanism for operating the same.

34. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency of different denominations including undesirable currency, means for successively removing the pieces of currency from the supporting means, a plurality of receivers one for each denomination and one for the undesirable currency, a selector mechanism for each receiver, and means for throwing the selector mechanisms into and.

out of selective relation with theremoving means. v

35. In a currency handling machine, the combination of means for supporting a stack of currency of different denominations including undesirable currency, means for successively removing the pieces of currency from the supporting means, a plurality of receivers one for each denomination and one for the undesirable currency, a selector mechanism for each receiver, a manually controlled operating means for each selector mechanism, and means for throwing the selector mechanisms out of selective relation with the removing means.

36. In a'currency handling machine, the combination of a supporting base for a stack of currency, said base having currency receiving area less than the area of the currency, and a removing means arranged beneath the exposed portion of the area of the stack of currency in advance of the base and acting only upon such exposed portion to withdraw the lowermost piece of ourrency from the bottom of the stack.

37. In a currency handling machine, the combination of a plurality of receptacles each adapted to receive a different kind of currency, means for delivering successive pieces of currency to the appropriate receptacle, said means comprising operator controlled means for determining the number of pieces of currency deposited in any receptacle, and means associated with the several receptacles for v preventing excessive number of pieces of currency of the appropriate kind being delivered to the corresponding receptacle.

38. In a currency handling machine, the combination of a plurality of receptacles each adapted to receive a different kind of currency, a plurality of means for delivering currency in' predetermined numbers to the different receptacles, operator controlled means for counting each piece of currency before it has been finally received by its receptacle, and means for positively registering the count of each piece of each kind.

39. In a currency handling machine, the combination of a plurality of receptacles each adapted to receive currency of a particular kind, a plurality of operator conhandled, of means for mechanically deliv- I ering the said paper money of the different denominations each to its own receptacle, and means, operating upon the delivery of the final one of a predetermined number of pieces to a particular receptacle to normally prevent the delivery of a succeeding bill to the aforesaid predetermined number.

41. In a machine for handling paper money, the combination of a plurality of passages through which paper money may be delivered each denomination through its own passage, of a plurality of receptacles arranged one adjacent each passage and each movable relative to its reception passage, and means controlled by the passage of the final piece of a predetermined number toy or through said passage to shift the receptacle and thus present the previously received pieces for delivery, normally preventing delivery of a succeeding piece to the pieces previously delivered.

42. In a machine for handling paper money,- the combination, of a plurality of passages through which paper money may be delivered each denomination through its own passage, of a plurality of receptacles arranged one adjacent each passage and each movable relative to its reception passage, and means controlled by the passage ofthe final piece of a predetermined number to or through said passage to shift the receptacle and thus normally prevent the delivery of a succeeding piece to the pieces previously delivered.

43. The combination of a plurality of passages through which paper money may be for delivery and normally prevent the delivery of a succeeding piece to the pieces previously delivered.

44. The combination of a plurality of passages through which paper money may be eaehmovable relative to its reception passage, and means to shift the receptacle and thus normally prevent the delivery of a succeeding piece to the pieces previously delivered.

45. In a machine to pandle paper money, the combination of a p urality of independent receptacles one for each denomination, mechanical means for receiving paper money and delivering the same to said receptacles, means operating upon said pieces during their passage to receptacles, for separating said bills into denominations Whereby they Will be delivered to the proper receptacle, and means for automatically removing predetermined number of pieces of any denomination from receiving position to prevent following pieces of the same denomination from association'therewith.

46. In a machine to handle paper money, the combination of a plurality of independent receptacles one for each denomination, mechanical means for receiving paper money and delivering the same to said receptacles, means operating upon said pieces during their passage to receptacles, for separating said bills into denominations Whereby they will be delivered to the proper receptacle, counting mechanisms for indicating the number of pieces delivered to each receptacle, and means controlled by said counting mechanisms for delivering the previously deposited group and normally preventing delivery of a succeeding piece to the previous group.

47. In a machine to handle paper money, the combination of a plurality of independent receptacles one for each denomination, mechanical means for receiving paper money and delivering the same to said receptacles, means operating upon said pieces during their passage to receptacles, for separating said bills into denominations Whereby they will be delivered to the proper receptacle, counting mechanisms for indicating the number of pieces delivered to each receptacle, and means controlled by said counting mechanisms for normally preventing delivery of a succeeding piece to the previous group.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Detroit, Michigan, this 6th day of May, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

FREDERICK L. SATTLEY. [L-S.]

Witnesses: I

ARTHUR M. H000, MAY LAYDEN. 

